Creating an Ultrasonic Network for Wearable Devices
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ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia was awarded a patent for designing an “Ultrasonic network for wearable devices”.
Abstract Source: USPTO
An ultrasonic communication system and method provide a networking framework for wearable devices based on ultrasonic communications. The ultrasonic communication system and method incorporate a set of physical, data link, network and application layer functionalities that can flexibly adapt to application and system requirements to efficiently distribute information between ultrasonic wearable devices.